Koelschip Bierexplosie

Brouwerij het Koelschip
Brewed at Maasland Brouwerij
Style: Barley Wine
Almere, Netherlands

Serve in Snifter

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(30cl bottle thanks to bu11zeye) medium amber with a ring of fine tan bubbles. Nose of caramel, honey, oats, well hidden alcohol and sweet grape. Taste is VERY sweet, toasty, coconut, peach, and unfermented sugars. Sweet and alcoholic linger, too sweet.

From back log: Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Pours dark gold, clear, with white head. Aroma if strong malt and alcohol, hint of honey. Flavor is the same. Heavy mouthfeel, low carbonation. Is ok, very sweet.

Bottled. Cloudy amber/brown, no head. Deep, sweet caramel dominates. Very sweet and fiercely warming with soft mellow mouthfeel. Flavours of caramel and marshmallow with creme brulee and extra sugar. Some salty bitterness. With a few years of aging it is now delightfully soft and rich, but also ungodly sweet.

Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Burnt amber pour with very little head. Aromas of caramel malt, honey, and sugary sweetness. Flavor is extremely sweet with more caramel.

Bottle 30 cl from Slijterij van Bergen - Eindhoven (NL). Red amber with heavy aromas of caramel, overripe fruits and alcohol. Like the taste similar, syrupy, heavy, sticking, very ripe fruits and alcohol. Caramelized beer to the extreme. Heavy malt, a limit in the sweetness.

UPDATED: AUG 3, 2011 33 cl bottle. Clear, deep amber liquid with very small off-white head. Smells of sweet malt, sugar, noble hops and some smoke. Taste is quite sweet and medium bitter. Some weird taste. Medium bodied with almost no carbonation. Way to sweet. Hmm, not good. Tastes a bit weird but not horrible.

Bottle from De Bierkonink. Hazel colour with no head. Initially had a nice, fresh grain aroma reminiscent of Weetabix but the sugar started to dominate and there were some ethanol type esters after it really opened up. Tasted far too sweet for me. Quite 1 dimensional in this regard. Bit of caramel aroma and flavour also. Some alcohol burn to finish.

bottle at home ... copper ... and odd wheatabix nose from a distance ... little sweet toffee malt and alcohol close up ... sweet grainy toffee malt ... that american malt that i dont like and huge... over over sweet and clawing

Draught @ KBC Den Bosch 2011. Clear orange, little brown colored beer. Smells sweet, liquorice, lots of sugar. Taste is way too sweet. No balanca at all. Low body, low carbo.

Tasted this at KBC Den Bosch ’11. Ended with this one and i didn’t like it at all. Waaaay too sweet, real sugarbomb here. The high alcohol isn’t in there to help the beer taste better, it’s just to make this beer high alcohol.